I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

St Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

My optimism for life carried through my work.

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

High school is such an awkward, difficult time, and I think a lot of people can't wait to explore the world because it's such a bubble.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

When a celebrity is spotted carrying a particular bag, everybody wants to own the same thing.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

There's been a lot of disappointments with the Iraqi army, no doubt about that. Some units have performed well, especially their special operations units. But a lot of their units have not.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.